By Heather Price

These days, given the economic climate we live in, it is good to be as switched on as we can be if we are to allow a business to grow to its full potential. Not only is it essential to employ sensible organisational skills, we will do well to tap into our creative and intuitive intelligence.

Not so long ago, I found myself in a place in my business where I have never been before. After many years of dedication and service to community and humanity, while continuously up-skilling and applying as many business marketing strategies as I was aware of, I thought I may have had to walk away and allow my business to die. And then I became aware of something; while I could see my business struggling in front of my eyes, I could actually feel it dying within me, and could sense that it was telling me it felt abandoned, and weary. The Spirit of my business had begun to prepare itself for death, and was shutting down. If my business was dying and I was still alive, then it must actually have a life force of its own.

When I stepped back from it, I realised that the spirit of my business had been seeded and nurtured through my dreaming of its creation.

All these years I had thought the business was a part of my spirit, and had kept it so close to me, bossing it around, and telling it what to do and what not to do. I'd showed my disappointment in it often enough – and I lost faith in it too easily. No longer! The change came about when I began to separate out from it, taking time out for myself away, and gave it some breathing space to grow on its own. Finally I had learned to trust it, treating and speaking to it with love and respect, and great gratitude. Here is the prayer I wrote to it in its darkest hour: